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Australians want super safeguard: ISA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
According to new data, 80% of Australians agree that super is for providing financial security in retirement and support law changes that will deter early release. As the government's consultation on legislating super objectives closes, Industry ...

Australian Retirement Trust names investment strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
Damian Lillicrap, ART's head of strategy for the QSuper portfolios, will depart the fund after 13 years. His departure follows the appointment of Andrew Fisher as head of the investment strategy for both the super savings and QSuper portfolios. ...

Objective will not achieve any real purpose: IFPA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
The Institute of Financial Professionals Australia (IFPA) has bucked the trend, rejecting the proposal to legislate an objective of superannuation. The IFPA said it supports consistency in future policy making around superannuation, which should be ...

New laws to end unpaid super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
Targeting dodgy employers, the government is introducing new legislation to combat the underpayment of workers' superannuation. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that new legislation will be introduced to Parliament this week, focused on enshrining workers' ...

Saxo launches managed portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
Saxo Australia today launched a suite of managed portfolios targeting self-directed investors and self-managed super funds. SaxoSelect offers seven managed portfolios with actively managed and index-based strategies. Three offerings are managed by BlackRock ...

Super reform "takes away the right to be tax exempt"

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... data revealed that if the government's $3 million super cap isn't indexed, around 500,000 individuals currently saving for retirement or already retired could be adversely affected. However, Bradford emphasised the overlooked fact that the actual ...

NGS Super suffers cyber-attack

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
Some NGS Super members have had their private data compromised in an attack on the fund's systems. The fund was the victim of a cyber-attack on Friday, March 17 during which some of its systems were accessed. The fund said they were only accessed ...

Rest switches up recruitment focus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
Andrew Lill, the chief investment officer of $70 billion super fund Rest, says the role of a CIO is changing and not just because investment heads have to respond quickly to more volatile markets. Increasingly, investment chiefs must consider a range ...

State Street buys outsourced trading firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023
State Street is acquiring CF Global Trading for an undisclosed amount. CF Global Trading specialises in outsourced trading on an agency basis for a range of asset classes and has been operating for more than two decades. It currently has execution desks ...

Advice industry must change as population ages: Expert

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... with their time. "It's important to get clients not to plan for a three-stage view of the world which requires lots of saving, but how do they want to shift money across different times of life to suit the time profile," he said. He said this strategy ...